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One Psychiatrist’s Take on Managing Tardive Dyskinesia

One Psychiatrist’s Take on Managing Tardive Dyskinesia

I routinely order ECGs, check weights, and draw labs to assess metabolic status for my patients taking second generation antipsychotics (SGAs). Before 2017, I didn’t rigorously screen for tardive dyskinesia (TD). Effectively this meant I didn’t care about it. In my private practice, I hadn’t noticed anyone with obvious TD symptoms, and no one had complained of involuntary movements, so I assumed that TD was a “solved problem”.